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glabro apice ciliolato tenuiter 3-4 lobato. Petala 3 a basi usque ad medium con- 

 nata tubum fomiantia, tubo 8-9 mm. longo 2mm. lato sursum plus minus latiore, 

 partibus liberis petali postici obovato-oblongis 7mm. longis 4mm. latis apice 

 valde concavis cuculliformibus rotundatis margine apiceque ciliolatis utraque 

 glabris postice deorsum reflexis, partibus liberis 

 petalorum lateralium eo postico angustioribus 

 oblongis margine interiore recurvis concavis 

 apice acutis glabris. Labellum basi cum tubo 

 petalorum connatum, limbo libero antice refle- 

 xo expanse haud plicato 12 mm. longo 13 mm. 

 lato rotundato apice obtuso brevissimo bilobato 

 vel emarginato margine subintegro vel crenu- 

 lato basi usque 2 mm. contracto glabro tenuis- 

 sinie metnbranaceo minute punctate. Stamen 

 singuluni, filamento basi cum tubo corollas con- 

 nate, partibus exsertis 13 mm. longis glabris, 

 anthera elliptica 4J mm. longa 2 mm. lata me- 

 dio plica ta par tern apicalem styli amplectanti 

 apice emarginata 2-loculari ; stylo filiformi 

 glabro secus stamen recurvo apice cupuliforme 

 dilatato, cupula margine ciliolata ; glandulas 

 ad apicem ovarii 2 semi-teretes. Staminodia 

 2 linearia 3 mm. longa \ mm. lata deorsum 

 reflexa in exsiccato complanata membranacea. 



Alpinia chinensis HAYATA in MATSUM. et 

 HAYATA Enum. PI. Formos. p. 423 (non Eosc.) 



HAB. Kelung, leg. U. FAURIE, Mai. 1903. 



Near Alpinia intermedia GAGN., but 

 differs from it by the sessile lips and glabrous anthers. 



Alpinia sp. (Fig. 79-f, g.) Caulis circ. 1| in. altus erectus rectus glaber. 

 Folia lanceolata circ. 30 cm. longa circ. 5 cm. lata apice acuminatissima basi 

 attenuata utraque pagine glabra ad marginem haud hirsuta, ligula membranacea 

 oblonga integra glabra obtusa. Panicula 15-20 cm. longa cum floribus 2-2icm. 



Fig. 79, a, a flower of Al- 

 pinia japonica Miq.xf; b, a lip 

 of the same, x|; c, a flower of 

 Alpinia kelungensis HAYATA, x 2 ; 

 d, a flower of Alpinia oblongifolia 

 HAYATA, x 2 ; e, a lip of the 

 same, X f ; f, a flower of Alpinia 

 sp. x; g, a lip of the same, Xf. 



